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Esporte of the same class are wanted | for the other grind administrativa depart, monte, but it is a foreiger Finance Minis- two y sex, of squalled republicsa govern Der is wanted micro than other Aler
prosent, mas of the grostost ossos of ment; after the election of Tuan Shib anxiety as the part of the govemmentala sa President for five years; alte of civilined Teatern countries:
the recognition of tho republic" by die Recently some very serious rocks have forsign Powers; and attice tiro aortion happened in Peking, and the whale poll of absoluto authority by the Provident tical position is in a state of extraordis, there is not a sign of conådenes In "Yuan, ary uncertainty. Yoon Shih-kai kas sud." Shih-kal, and the country. In "in"bistako denly broken up the parliament, and in of alisos and starchy. The Central Gov- 87 daing he clearly affcnted a counter zramént dannot govern, and, is in a con revolution: The last shadow of prudence [dition of bankruptcy and the Provincial se to the axistence of a republie has now
Governments to any rofuse to send
the government may be called; it is now been swept away. By whatever name their ordinary contributions of revenue.
in fact a dictatorship of the most absoluta desaription.
CAPITAL AND RESZEG $7,200,000 Equal... £1,190,000. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BANK- ING BUSINESS tranmoted,
The tendency of the signs that are CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened on the visible so far are all in the direction of DEPOSITS RECEIVED, fixed for one-reversion-to-a-type of govermavat year at 4% per annum or for shorter nearly resembling the Manchu goverti perioda, we ass which may be ascertained I ment prior to its last days of doesdence. Un application.
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LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFT granted on the principat cities in the World.
Peking, but are constantly clamouring for money from Poking. The Control Government has been living on daraigu
and though jo muse bave further lon .cans during the past year and more,
poodily to kap is afout it has so security. so offer, and is in a desparata condition. The gates of foreiga lotine hard re- cently been removed by the British” Gov- mineab and China is now free to work"
lay becoming more and more doubtful out her own destruction, but it is every
abtained, and small tours on ruinous whether any further large loans can be
terns can, at bomb, only carry on tho withstanding the spleedid work done by government for a month or two Not the foreign managed Maritime Customs and bord the and of 1014 the default is piling up at a most serious
the facial administration of Chino in inal crash must come which must place
commission.
OLD WAYS NEW DEAS. The two chief weapons that were.wield. MAIN 806 TELEGRAPHIC REMITd by the Manchu dynasty in governing TANCES made.
China during a period extending over fully two centuries was bribery and intimidation. These two methods have been brought into play with stondily in- creasing clearness during the last twelve months, and has become glaringly ap purons during the most recent events.. But, tough the great man of them people are still steeped in ignorance and naturally intensely spathetic as regards the forms of government, the Chins of to-day
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woon to Fresident at Peking, and the Vice-President at Wechang have always been very uncertain, and there are now Mear indications that they may and be zomo strained, in which ovené a danger
in many important respecta very different to the China of a contury
THX VICE-PRESIDENT'S POSITION. ago, and something for better than bri- Besides the overwhelming Anarçin bery and intimidation will be necessary poril there is another very serious crisis for the establishment of a stable govern-beginning to develop. The relations be ment throughout the country, Edicts and Mandates preach admirably, but it is actions alone that speak in tanks that are heard, and believed in by the people, and it is in actions that there is no sign of improvement, and that consequently the county is in a state of doop dissatis faction, and unrest. It is abundantly civar that a Parliament is unsuited to the needs of China to-day, but it is cx- trentely unlikely that a dictatorship by apominal President, no matter how much it may be covered up by a show of constitutionality, will be acquiesced. in peaceably by the people for any length
of time.
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appalling magnitude would ad Occa come into fall view. The President has, for a long time post, been trying to get ho. Vice-President to go to fire at Pek- ng, but he has steadily refused and the recent sensational events at Paling will bviously make him much mors deter, nined than ever to stay where he is. 10 Vic-President's popularity through at the country is immense and steadily rowing, and his power and influenes in ho Yangtze Provinces are not cooled en by the President himself. He is andoubtedly the rising hope of China, He has a clean recorde and his no bad ast to live down. If the new Advisory
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Even if the Advisory Council is not given openly the power to legislate tan-Kai Tan. will be such a powerful body, if it ever
Fawk, Cantin-Esi
at their feat, and accepted without really materializes, that, even if a no- a great deal of humiliating pinal parliament continues to function, it will be merely a skoleton without ill be completely under the control of my spirit, and perfectly helpless, and the President and his Advisory Council of seventy members.
Powers during that long portiod, but she eventually recalved,, as she well desarvori, • splendid reward.
Chins is simply employing a few mere ** advisers," and making practically no uss even of them, and is just plunging wildly about in a sea of uncertainty and trouble, and making no sensible effort
to save herself from ruin,
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